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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This same thing just happened to my dc with his 5th grade history test. I don't think it is enough notice, especially since there was no weekend time given. For those of you suggesting that op's child needs to work on her study skills and review the materials more frequently, my child doesn't have "materials" to be reviewing at home - no textbook, not even photocopies of pages of a textbook, no handwritten notes. The teacher orally teaches the material, including using the promethian board, online materials, etc. and the kids listen, discuss and complete worksheets (not bashing the worksheets, they are often thoughtful ones). But he doesn't have anything that he could review each night. The teacher sent home a one page worksheet for the kids to review for the test. This is MoCo btw. [/quote]

If the test material can be summarized in one page, two days is plenty of time to study if your child has a basic understanding of the material. If your child isn't understanding the materials as they're learning it, they need to be more proactive about reaching out to the teacher for extra help.[/quote]

The test material isn't summarized in a page - the one page lists the different things that will be tested on.  My beef is that there are no materials for the kids to review what they've learned about each of these topics.

These responses are really surprising me.  Didn't you all study for tests? Typically you aren't expected to have perfect recall of what the teacher went over in class in order to "study" it - in fact, if you did, you wouldn't need to study it! And, at least in MoCo, 4th or 5th graders are not taking notes as the teacher teaches.   [/quote]

If they have no materials for them to study, why does it matter how many days notice they have? Does five days' notice somehow make a bigger difference when there's nothing you can do to prepare anyway?[/quote]

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